Zeynep Sumer-King

HITAC Member Terms:
Term 1: 1/2024 – 12/2026

Zeynep Sumer-King is Vice President, Regulatory Affairs and Global Services at NewYork-Presbyterian. In this role she collaborates with senior leadership and enterprise cross-functional teams to identify and manage regulatory risks, provide strategic insight and oversee regulatory planning activities across the NYP enterprise. Ms. Zeynep Sumer-King is also responsible for establishing and maintaining relationships with key regulatory bodies while leading the execution of special projects related to system development and expansion, namely NYP’s Certificate of Need program. She serves as the co-lead on the systems’ regulatory and process redesign initiative through utilization of digital transformation to facilitate standardization across the system.  She also leads NYP’s Global Services operations, growth strategy and business development.

Prior to joining NYP in 2023, Ms. Sumer-King served in a number of leadership roles over a 16-year period at the Greater New York Hospital Association, most recently as Senior Vice President, for Regulatory and Professional Affairs. She oversaw a broad portfolio of priority issues on behalf of GNYHA’s nearly 200 member hospitals, including health information technology policy.

She holds a Masters in Science in Health Communication from Tufts University School of Medicine and a Bachelor of Arts in Communication and Anthropology from Michigan State University.